Bolsheviki seize French steamers at Odessa in seizure bid
Bolsheviki at Odessa seized the French steamers Batativia and Higrette which carried Russian prisoners from France and refused to release them until the French battleship Edgard Quinet and three destroyers were sent from Constantinople and threatened to raze the city. Four allied flagged steamers carrying repatriated prisoners reached Odessa, two were allowed to depart while others were boarded. The Bolsheviks said Moscow ordered the hold, and a wireless message to Constantinople followed.
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Constantinople
Bolsheviki
Odessa
Batativia
France
Edgard Quinet
Moscow
Jitney Plan Emerges Amid Denver Street Car Strike
Denver officials report the striking street car union considering 150 jitney buses to rival street cars halted by strikebreakers. A conference featuring A. H. Burt and Wayne OC Williams led to tentative plans. Legal actions filed against nine mob leaders linked to the Denver Post plant invasion, with charges of destruction to the Post Printing and Publishing company.
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A. H. Burt
Salt Lake City
Burt
Wayne OC. Williams
Denver Post
Court of Justice of the Peace
William A. Wright
Harry Lane
Post Printing and Publishing Company
Cheyenne’s Only Lady Barber Routes to Judge Post
Elizabeth Brown, the city’s sole woman barber, declares candidacy for justice of the peace in precinct 1 on the Republican ticket. If elected she would become the only woman justice in the city, a race she previously pursued two years ago.
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Elizabeth Brown
Justice of the Peace
Idlse
Brown
Reds Doomed Says Yankee Ambassador
Washington August 18 David R Francis American ambassador to Russia predicted that the present soviet regime in Russia would not survive six months The American note will be one of the agencies for overthrowing the Bolsheviks It will reach the Russian people and encourage them toward new conditions for their welfare and salvation
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Washington
Italy
David R. Francis
Russia
Francis
Butler to Call Headquarters for Possible Interest
Chief Emery says R. A. Butler should call at headquarters to hear of something in his interest. Butler was in Cheyenne recently and gave general delivery as his address.
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Emery
R. A. Butler
Mr. Butler
Cheyenne
Coughlin Baby May Not Live in Norristown Case
Augusto Pasquale held without bail after preliminary hearing on charges of kidnapping burglary and extortion tied to Blakely Coughlin missing from his Norristown home since June 2 authorities fear the child is dead and consider a theory that he choked the infant during the attempted theft.
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Philadelphia
Augusto Pasquale
Blakely Coughlin
Norristown
Pasquale
Democrats Arrange Roosevelt Meeting in Cheyenne
Prominent Cheyenne Democrats met at the office of William B. Ross Friday to plan Roosevelt's August 27 visit. They arranged entertainment for Franklin D. Roosevelt and an August 27 evening address by the Democratic vice presidential candidate.
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Cheyenne
William B. Ross
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Tennessee Senate Ratifies Federal Suffrage Amendment
In Nashville the Tennessee senate voted 25 to 4 to ratify the federal suffrage amendment. The unexpected large majority surprised suffrage supporters. The lower house fight looms next week as the house adjourns until Monday and a committee plans to meet Sunday night to act on the resolution.
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Nashville
Tenn
Tennessee Senate
Senate
House
Barber Finnancer's Crash Snares Trio of Swindle Suspects
Four men linked to a Boston Ponzi style scheme were jailed August 13 as investigators said New England investors lost millions. Charles Ponzi surrendered after bondsmen failed. three Old Colony Foreign Exchange officials held on a $50,000 bond each on a theft-related charge. The group faces August 24 hearings.
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Boston
New England
Charles Ponzi
Ponzi
Middlesex County
Old Colony Foreign Exchange Company
Express rates raised by American Railway Express Company
The Interstate Commerce Commission granted authority to raise express rates by about 12.46 percent. The move is expected to boost the company’s annual income by roughly 35.5 million dollars, with wages for workers rising by about 48 million dollars following recent labor-board awards. Milk and cream transportation rates rise 20 percent, or 12.5 percent where no competing roads exist, to match railroad increases. The commission notes only part of the requested rise was granted and urges renegotiation of the current contract with railroads to shift more revenue to the carrier.
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Washington
American Railway Express Company
Interstate Commerce Commission
Railroad Labor Board
Menosa
Young Western Union Employees Arrested on White Slavery Charge
Allen, about 19, jobber at Western Union, and Grace Slater, a clerk there, were taken into custody after Wichita police warned of alleged elopement and a lack of marriage ceremony. They reportedly lived together in light housekeeping rooms and will be held for arrival of an officer from Wichita.
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Kangas
Allen
Blackie
Grace Slater
Western Union
Wichita
Bolsheviks Close On Warsaw Amid Typhus Crisis
Aug 13 dispatches report Premier Witos leaving Warsaw for Posen as Bolsheviks push within twenty miles of the capital. Refugees flood west of the Vistula amid a typhus epidemic. American typhus expedition head Colonel Harry Gilchrist warns Poland faces its worst outbreak yet. Paris notes Bolsheviks surround Warsaw from multiple fronts as peace talks loom.
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Warsaw
Associated Press
Witos
Posen
Russia
Vistula
Poland
Posehn
Harry Gilchrist
Foland
Peace terms in Russian Polish dispute outlined by Bolsheviks
Terms proposed for submission between Soviet and Polish emissaries include plebiscite in Russian Poland, unrestricted propaganda, unimpeded code messages with Germany, transfer of salt and coal mines to Soviet operation, and travel rights for Soviet nationals. Officials expect harsher terms at Minsk than Bernovitch.
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Washington
Associated Press
Poland
Russia
Germany
Friday the Thirteenth Quiets Cheyenne With No Major Incidents
In Cheyenne on Friday the thirteenth there were no accidents or crimes of note. Travelers kept roads and rail lines busy, a person walked under a ladder and survived, and the sun returned after clouds, making it a unusually calm day despite the superstition.
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Wall-Eyed
Jinx
Old Cheyenne
Napoleon Brooks Receives Compensation After 1920 Fall
San Francisco reports Napoleon Brooks, a Black cement worker, who fell from a Fresno building on April 8, 1920, walked into the state industrial accident commission and received $187.47 compensation plus weekly benefits of $20.88 until disability ends, after sustaining a fractured skull, crushed right foot, and multiple fractures.
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Napoleon Brooks
Fresno
State Industrial Accident Commission
Hig
Frid ay 138th Unlucky Day for Chinese
Jim Monchow a Chinese man was arrested in Cheyenne as a policeman asked him to open a package. A bottle contained an ounce of opium and he is held at the city jail for federal authorities. The seizure could fund about 8500 dollars worth of pills for smokes. Monchow had come to Cheyenne for the Frontier celebration.
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Jim Monchow
Jim
Monchow
Cheyennne
Weygand Likely To Decline Polish Command Offer
Paris dispatch says General Weygand is unlikely to accept the Polish council of national defense offer to assume supreme command of Polish forces. Bolsheviks push west beyond Milawa toward the Vistula to sever Poland's Baltic supply line, with the abandonment of Pultusk noted as a grave military defeat.
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Paris
Weygand
Polish Council of National Defense
Milawa
Vistula
Baltic
Poland
Pultusk
New torpedo boat sent to Sebastopol from Cherbourg
A torpedo boat launched at Cherbourg on Friday receives orders to report to General Wrangel at Sebastopol in the Black Sea fleet.
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France
Cherbourg
Air mail plane forced to land near Tucson
An all metal air mail plane en route from Los Angeles to New York landed in mesquite brush north of Tucson after losing power during the second leg. Pilot B K Allyon of Cleveland guided a safe descent, with no injuries to passengers Eddie Rickenbacher and John M Larson. The craft, owned by a New York firm, continued to El Paso the next day.
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Ariz
Los Angeles
New York
el Paso
B. K. Allyon
Cleveland
Ohio
Eddie Rickenbacher
John M. Larson
New York Corporation
Allyon
Ingratitude Key 70 Jail for Burtka
Paul Burtka laborer is jailed on larceny charges amid claims of ingratitude after allegedly robbing a benefactor of 24 dollars who had shared his bed. He had 23.12 dollars when arrested and is suspected in stealing a revolver and other items from grading gang members.
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Paul Burtka
Burtka
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